Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCHAnd men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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